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A Gatineau woman is fighting to get her child's name changed to recognize the baby's father, who died of flesh-eating disease before the little girl was born. "I can't give her her father," Roxanne Lauzon said of two-month-old baby Faith. Lauzon's boyfriend Robert Lajambe died suddenly in May after flesh-eating disease took over his body.

R&B singer Bobby Brown emerged from the funeral of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown, staring toward the ground before lifting his head up and briefly gazing at the sky. Sporting a black dress shirt, the grieving Brown was one of the first to exit the tension-filled private service for Bobbi Kristina on Saturday at the …

Last fall, when Martin Meltzer calculated that 1.4 million people might contract Ebola in West Africa, the world paid attention. Meltzer has a lot of critics who say he and his CDC colleagues have a habit of wilfully ignoring the complexities of disease outbreaks, resulting in estimates that over-dramatize how bad an outbreak …

Come to Canada. Walter Palmer apparently did, although not necessarily for fenced-in hunting. The Minnesota dentist who hunted Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, is listed in the bowhunting records as killing the 187th-largest mule deer ever bagged in Alberta. That was in 2006 and Canadian Press cites a report that Palmer killed …

German prosecutors have shelved their Nazi war crimes investigation of a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander in an SS-led unit, saying Friday that the 96-year-old is not fit for trial. The decision came more than two years after the AP published a story establishing that …

An experimental Ebola vaccine developed in Winnipeg appears to be so effective in trials it has scientists with the World Health Organization (WHO) saying it could revolutionize the fight against the deadly disease. Preliminary analysis of the rVSV-Ebola vaccine, developed by scientists in Canada's National Microbiology …

An unprecedented number of people in British Columbia reported raw shellfish-related illnesses in June and July, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) said Friday. The majority of the 35 cases of Vibrio parahaemolyticus-related infections reported were traced to B.C. oysters served raw in restaurants, the BCCDC said. …

The experimental Ebola vaccine designed by Canadian scientists seems to work, the interim results of a trial in Guinea suggest. If proven effective, the vaccine could be "a game changer," said Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, which sponsored the trial. "The data so far shows that none …

It appears the world finally has an effective Ebola vaccine. A new study reported Friday that a vaccine designed by scientists working at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg induces a quick and highly effective response, protecting 100 per cent of the people who got it against the virus. This is the …

Triathletes swam in waters off Copacabana Beach Friday ahead of weekend Olympic test events, despite published warnings that water in the area was "unfit" for swimming. The website of the Rio de Janeiro environmental agency said the water, which has been declared unfit ten previous times this year, was unsafe based on …

Fetal tissue donation has been making headlines after an anti-abortion group began releasing undercover videos targeting Planned Parenthood — the third of which was released yesterday. The videos have ignited fierce debate on a practice unknown to most as little as a month ago: the fact that many women receiving abortions …

A team of international researchers has reported an Ebola vaccine developed at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg works. In a study in Guinea, the vaccine protected 100 per cent of the people who got it from infection with the deadly virus. The world has been waiting for years for an effective Ebola …

What's more, the "obsession" about body weight and composition has little to do with actual health, said Dr. Arya Sharma, chair in obesity research and management at the University of Alberta. While many are quick to use weight as a key measure of fitness, Sharma said there are many misconceptions about what the numbers …

Fentanyl has become a factor in an increasing number of drug overdose deaths in B.C. and is being unknowingly consumed by both serious addicts and recreational drug users. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is roughly 50 to 100 times more toxic than morphine. Hardy and Amelia Leighton — both in their 30s — are survived …

(Reuters) - The U.S. Olympic Committee is paying close attention to the water quality for sailors and rowers at the 2016 Rio Olympics, but USOC chief of sport Alan Ashley said he would have no qualms taking a canoe on the polluted waters. "I would do it," Ashley said during a conference call on Thursday marking the upcoming …